Autobiographical event memory and aging: Older adults get the gist

MD Grilli, S Sheldon - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2022 - cell.com
We propose that older adults' ability to retrieve episodic autobiographical events, although
often viewed through a lens of decline, reveals much about what is preserved and prioritized …

The current state of memory Specificity Training (MeST) for emotional disorders

TJ Barry, DJ Hallford, C Hitchcock, K Takano… - Current opinion in …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Memory Specificity Training (MeST) is an intervention developed from basic
science that has found clinical utility. MeST uses cued recall exercises to target the difficulty …

Differences in the content and coherence of autobiographical memories between younger and older adults: Insights from text analysis.

S Sheldon, J Sheldon, S Zhang, R Setton… - Psychology and …, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Several studies have shown that older adults generate autobiographical memories with
fewer specific details than younger adults, a pattern typically attributed to age-relate declines …

Virtual reality video game improves high-fidelity memory in older adults

PE Wais, M Arioli, R Anguera-Singla, A Gazzaley - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Therapeutic interventions have not yet been shown to demonstrate restorative effects for
declining long-term memory (LTM) that affects many healthy older adults. We developed a …

I remember it like it was yesterday: Age-related differences in the subjective experience of remembering

A Folville, JS Simons, A D'Argembeau… - Psychonomic Bulletin & …, 2021 - Springer
It has been frequently described that older adults subjectively report the vividness of their
memories as being as high, or even higher, than young adults, despite poorer objective …

Taking stock of the past: A psychometric evaluation of the Autobiographical Interview

AW Lockrow, R Setton, KAP Spreng, S Sheldon… - Behavior Research …, 2024 - Springer
Autobiographical memory (AM) involves a rich phenomenological re-experiencing of a
spatio-temporal event from the past, which is challenging to objectively quantify. The …

Individual differences in the relationship between episodic detail generation and resting state functional connectivity vary with age

S Matijevic, JR Andrews-Hanna, AA Wank, L Ryan… - Neuropsychologia, 2022 - Elsevier
The ability to generate episodic details while recollecting autobiographical events is
believed to depend on a collection of brain regions that form a posterior medial network …

Painful reminders: involvement of the autobiographical memory system in pediatric postsurgical pain and the transition to chronicity

A Waisman, M Pavlova, M Noel, J Katz - Canadian Journal of Pain, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Memory biases for previous pain experiences are known to be strong predictors of
postsurgical pain outcomes in children. Until recently, much research on the subject in youth …

Remembering what we imagine: the role of event schemas in shaping how imagined autobiographical events are recalled

C Fenerci, B Adjei, S Sheldon - Learning & Memory, 2024 - learnmem.cshlp.org
Much like recalling autobiographical memories, constructing imagined autobiographical
events depends on episodic memory processes. The ability to imagine events contributes to …

What are your thoughts? Exploring age-related changes in episodic and semantic autobiographical content on an open-ended retrieval task

C Strikwerda-Brown, K Williams, M Lévesque… - Memory, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Older adults display impairments in accessing episodic, but not semantic details, when
specifically requested to construct autobiographical events. How aging affects access to …